Meet the ECODESIGNERS that inspired us create and develop EKOHUNTERS

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They are the ECODESIGNERS that inspired us create and develop EKOHUNTERS , and for that we will allways be gratefull

Their history, their products and the way they produce them, made us belief. Belief there was a possibility of empower and promoting their work and values and challenge and help other designers to break through and work under same high quality standards. They inspired us to imagine a different world, a more sustainable one.

Maria Fiter

Spain

Crea-re is formed by a couple of designers, Maria Fiter (Polish) – responsable of ecofriendly lighting and furniture projects and Marco Migliorisi (Italy) – designer of eco-cases for music instruments.

"I create eco-friendly lighting made mostly with maché paper and wood. To create paper pulp lamps I use only old newspapers – in this way they are 100% recycled. In my wooden products I use only water-based varnish and beeswax finish.

Each paper pulp lamp is different – it is not possible to make two exactly the same lamps. I make each of them by myself and each of them has got its own story – their stories talk about my inspirations to create them. In the series of lamps called “Copernicus” the inspiration for all of the lamps comes from the planets of the Solar System like: Luna, Jupiter, Pluto, Globe.

Also art is a great source of inspiration for me – the structure of lamps – gray, porous, irregular, dry and cracked was inspired by the paintings of Polish artist group called Grupa Nowohucka".

Raúl Laurí Pla

Spain

This designer from Alicante was born in 1980 and graduated as a product designer at EASD Alcoy, after which he continued training in materials and processes.

He has extensive experience in product design and development thanks to his eight years as head of Technical Department at DIEN, his three years as a freelance designer and his experience in R&D in ACTIU.

His creative spirit, his commitment to sustainability and his interest in innovation, impulse him to constantly seek new materials from the culinary waste that we generate. Thanks to this decafé the product was born as well as Decafé, the ecodesign brand.

His work has been recognized with the First Prize in the Salone Satellite Award in 2012, when he decided to launch his own studio "Raúl Laurí design lab" developing the design and self-production of the pieces with decafe.

The "Decafé collection" has been exhibited in galleries, museums and international fairs, and from it have been echoed design books, magazines and newspapers from around the world, as an example of state-of-the-art avant-garde product.

David Trubridge

New Zealand

During an interview with the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Trubridge answered the fundamental question of why he designs.

“To provide cultural nourishment, to tell stories, to reach people emotionally and spiritually; the objects are a vehicle for the nourishment we so badly lack in all the pragmatic and consumer stuff we are surrounded with. And the other reason I design is to recreate that vital connection to nature that we have lost so much, living in insulated cities.”

David Trubridge graduated from Newcastle University in England in 1972 with a degree in Naval Architecture (Boat Design). Working as a forester part-time in rural Northumberland for a short period, he taught himself to make furniture. His carefully crafted designs were shown all over the UK.

In 1981, Trubridge and his wife Linda set off to sail around the world with their two small sons. They sold all they had and bought ‘Hornpipe’, the yacht that was their home for the next ten years as they navigated their way throughout the Caribbean and the Pacific.

The family arrived in New Zealand in 1985. Deeply inspired by his impressions of the Pacific, Trubridge began to develop furniture which held close connotations with the sea.

Fortunes changed dramatically for Trubridge with his re-launch of Body Raft. This signaled the transformation of the business from a small-scale model to one that has a considerable presence on the international lighting and furniture market.

Trubridge has had a long-standing passion for the environment, deepened by his time at sea. In 2004 he was selected for the Antarctica Arts Fellowship program, which allowed him to spend several weeks in this remote and ecologically delicate location. It was an experience that inspired Trubridge to heighten his pursuit of environmental sensitivity, both as an individual, and as the driving force behind a company that continues to expand.

David's designs have featured in countless international publications including the most influential, as an instigator of the trend of 'raw sophistication' and as an exemplar of environmentally responsible design.

In 2008 the French magazine Express listed him as one of the top 15 designers in the world, and in 2012 the Pompidou Centre in Paris purchased his 'Icarus' installation for its permanent collection.

Michiel van Mierlo

Netherlands

Michiel van Mierlo is the Co-Owner and Brand Ambassador of Good&Mojo. Good&Mojo is the little sister of the Dutch design company it's about RoMi, established in 1993.

After introducing every year a sustainable lamp in urban collection “Citylights” Michiel and the two other co-owners Rob and Norma decided to take a step further and launch the first sustainable lighting brand ! In 2016 was launched Good&Mojo, a lighting concept with love for the planet & people.

Pedram Zolgradi, Carolin Fiechter

Germany

Adital Ela

Israel

Adital is an industrial designer and impact driven entrepreneur specializing in the field of design for sustainability.

Founder and CEO of CRIATERRA EARTH TECHNOLOGIES, holds a BA in industrial design from the Holon Academic Institute of Technology (HIT) and a Masters of Design from the ‘Man and Humanity’ Masters program at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Adital is a TED fellow, Switcher, Senior sustainability design lecturer and former Board Member of O2 Global Network.

Svenja Garbers & Henri Garbers

Germany

Svenja and Henri Garbers, the names behind Lasfera, started off their careers with carpentry apprenticeships in Cologne and later travelled the world in search of design inspiration and new ways of thinking and working. After stops in Florence, Milan, London, and Beijing and working with some of the biggest companies and corporations in the world, they started developing their own vision of what it was they wanted to do: Modern design with a twist of traditional crafting.